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vma quite satisfied with the passing of the Bui , the excellent results of which are every day oecoming more conspicuous . It has been stated that English rural paupers are now furnished to the manufacturers who need more hands , instead of Irish paupers , and that masters and workmen are alike well pleased with the exchange . Heretofore it has been the custom for farmers to employ
Irishmen during the time of harvest . It will not be long now ere they will employ English mechanics , and then two advantages will be gained : the rural population will acquire knowledge and enlargement of their intellectual faculties by witnessing the
operation of machinery ; and the operatives of the towns will acquire gentler and more refined tastes by occasionally indulging in rural pleasures and natural beauty . The poor Irishmen must be kept at hdme by a poor law , which , rendering it compulsory on their aristocrats to maintain them , will force on them the necessity of educating them and giving them industrious habits .
For all this we owe our thanks to the Lords : they preserve (their own interests in that as in all other things . But still Radicals and Republicans , —for , as the Times ' observes , they are synonymous , —Radicals and Republicans may well echo the cry of William Cobbett , ' Thank God there is a House of Lords !' But for the House of Lords the nation would not have now been
50 far advanced towards its desirable conclusion . Knaves as they are to all good ends , they are still fools enough to believe they are serving their own interests while doing those things which convince all men , even the most timid , that they are a mischief and a nuisance , which it is an unpleasant thing to have even to
abate by the contact of collision , but which it were a still more mischievous thing to suffer to remain . The foolish ' Times' even knows this , though it makes awkward and unwieldy attempts to render service to its new masters , who despise it while they employ it . Ten years of constant agitation , as unremitting as that which destroyed the slave-trade , could not have so
undermined the prestige attaching to the House of Lords as they themselves have done in a single session . Time was that , if a man talked of infringing on the smallest privilege of the Lords , he was looked on as an incendiary by most who heard him ; but now , if a doubt is raised as to the propriety of taking away from the Lords all exclusive power , and making them entirely responsible to the people , the expression of the doubt is commonly
regarded as one seeking either sinister gain , or possessed of consummate folly . Daniel O'Connell , the speaker of the Irish people , who but a few years back was looked on as little better than a vulgar hourling rebel , only unhanged because he was too cunning to oe caught * is now making a triumphant progress round Eng-Mfpj ) . and Scotland , talking of the Lords and the doom about to IIP paifed on them , with open aad undisguised contempt . And PMtttfiiaji tbb , the people who willingly listen to him are they
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 638, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/10/
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